wool in good order and I think a pretty fair clip. The wool is on board the Esther, one of the Blair vessels. I send sampples of the wool to Bethune. The wool might have been in Wellington long before this but their was no vessell but the Wonga and she was engaged by others. I received the fifty pounds you sent through the bank. I am hard up for cash. MacInnes sent three or four lawyer's letters and I had to pay him £20 and done with him. Shearing, washing and p[r]essing the wool, extra labour at the time of shearing runs away with a great deall of money. The reaping and cutting of the crops came on all at one time and I was obblidged to put more labour on so without a little money I shall be at a stand still and canot do nothing.